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CSDMS @csdms.bsky.social · 12d

CLaSH is seeking an Assistant Director to help lead an ambitious, interdisciplinary effort to transform the science of and advance community resilience for hazards like landslides and flooding. Apply by November 15th. See also csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · Sep 12

Chicago completed installation of 277 pollution sensors and said it will make data publicly available early 2026, allowing residents to get a detailed look at air quality in their own neighborhoods. trib.al/d0US9Pe

Chicago moves a step closer to neighborhood air-pollution monitoring

A network of almost 300 air sensors installed across the city is the largest of its kind in the U.S. The pollution data are expected to be made public next year.

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CLaSH-an NSF Center for Land Surface Hazards @clashgeohazards.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉 It’s official! Today, we announce the launch of CLaSH: Center for Land Surface Hazards an NSF supported initiative to advance the science of cascading geohazards to enable a resilient society.

Follow along as we share updates, opportunities, research, and collaborations! 🌎✨ #CLaSH #NSF

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Colette Heald @coletteheald.bsky.social · Aug 25

Are you interested in biosphere-atmosphere interactions, global modeling, and living in Zurich? If so, this postdoc position might be for you! Please share with any interested colleagues: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Atmospheric Chemistry

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · Aug 14

Chicago is racing to put up 277 air-pollution sensors by the end of summer as city officials try to get a handle on the poor air quality that severely affects the polluted Far South Side, Southwest Side and West Side neighborhoods. trib.al/2zr9ghn

Chicago aims to have largest number of air-pollution monitors in the U.S.

The city is racing to put up 277 sensors. Once installed, Chicago will have the biggest number of high-quality air monitors in the country, a model that rivals only London.

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Cristi Proistosescu @cristiproist.bsky.social · Aug 4

🚨Job Alert🚨
We're hiring in the broad area of *Earth Surface Dynamics Geophysics*

Please help me advertise this (rare) opportunity for a full-time tenure track assistant professorship.

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The Department of Earth Science & Environmental Change in the School of Earth, Society, and Environment (https://earth.illinois.edu/) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the flagship campus of the University of Illinois System, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Earth Surface Dynamics, with an emphasis on near-surface geophysics. We seek a scientist whose research addresses the physical, chemical, and biological processes that shape the Earth’s surface and near-surface environments—processes that influence water resources, landscape evolution, ecosystem health, and the mitigation of natural hazards. The full-time, 9-month (academic year) tenure-track faculty appointment is at the Assistant Professor level with a target start date of August 16, 2026.

We are particularly interested in candidates who use near-surface geophysical methods—such as seismic, potential field, geodetic, and/or remote sensing techniques—to investigate shallow subsurface structures and link surface processes to deep-time geological or climatic phenomena. We welcome applicants whose work integrates field-based geophysical observations with computational or mathematical modeling, and fosters interdisciplinary connections across hydrology, geomorphology, critical zone science, atmospheric sciences, and engineering. Successful candidates will demonstrate experience with fostering or the ability to foster an inclusive and collaborative teaching, learning, departmental, and research environment where all can thrive. They will also advance the educational mission of the University of Illinois, a land-grant institution committed to access, education, research, and service and to addressing challenges at both local and global scales.

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Daniel Horton @danethan.bsky.social · Jul 29

The methods presented in this study are innovative and interesting, but there's still lots of work to be done to advance the methodology, much of which is outlined in the Discussion section, so please have a look :)

Regional landslide hydrometeorology framework

Daniel Horton @danethan.bsky.social · Jul 29

In this study she applies these methods to a California case study, i.e., the December 2022 to January 2023 parade of 9 consecutive landfalling atmospheric rivers that caused 100s of landslides across the state.

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Daniel Horton @danethan.bsky.social · Jul 29

Chuxuan's thesis, funded by an NSF PREEVENTS award, explores methods to integrate regional hydrological modeling into land surface hazard research. Chuxuan developed a water balance framework that provides a means to assess hydrological conditions relevant to landslide events over a regional domain.

Landfall locations of atmospheric rivers, location of reported landslides, and precipitation info

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Daniel Horton @danethan.bsky.social · Jul 29

Pleased to share the final chapter of Dr. Chuxuan Li's PhD thesis, "Mixed Hydrometeorological Processes Explain Regional Landslide Potential" now published in @agu.org's GRL: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Mixed Hydrometeorological Processes Explain Regional Landslide Potential

Meteorologically informed hydrologic modeling and K-means clustering improve understanding of widespread landslide triggers A regional-scale water balance analysis from process-based modeling off...

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WBEZ @wbez.org · Jul 11

Northwestern University researchers studied tens of thousands of data points to figure out who is most likely to get sick or die from extremely hot weather and will present 30 recommendations to better prepare for heat waves and potentially save lives. https://trib.al/1MvHweu

Thirty years after historic heat wave, Chicagoans are still at risk

Northwestern University researchers are giving the city 30 recommendations to better prepare for heat waves and potentially save lives.

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brettchase.bsky.social @brettchase.bsky.social · Jul 11

Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the deadly Chicago heat wave that killed more than 700 people. The city still has work to do to protect its residents. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Thirty years after historic heat wave, Chicagoans are still at risk

Northwestern University researchers are giving the city 30 recommendations to better prepare for heat waves and potentially save lives.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · Jul 16

Chicagoans said in a survey that they want the city to plant more trees and create additional greenspace, protect outdoor workers and provide more cooling centers during extreme weather.
https://trib.al/JW78ku9

Chicagoans want more greenspace, worker protections ahead of heat waves, survey finds

Thirty years after a heat wave left more than 700 people dead, Northwestern researchers asked residents to rank solutions for the city to improve planning before extreme heat hits.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · Jul 16

The tool shows which Chicago neighborhoods are at the highest risk during heat waves, based on not only their history of heat-related deaths but also on several other factors, including demographics, land use and air conditioning access.

Chicago creating index to identify neighborhoods most vulnerable to heat waves

Tool shows history of heat-related deaths, demographics, land use and air conditioning access across communities.

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Keerti Gopal @keertigopal.bsky.social · Jul 17

In the neighborhoods where Black residents were hit hardest by Chicago's 1995 heat wave, many systemic disparities remain unaddressed.
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30 Years After Chicago’s Deadliest Heat Wave, Systemic Racism Is Still the Root Problem - Inside Climate News

CHICAGO—Cheryl Johnson was watching the news during the worst heat wave in her city’s history when she learned that a man she’d known since she was a child had been found dead on the steps of a church...

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Daniel Horton @danethan.bsky.social · Jul 6

Observed Changes in Daily Precipitation Intensity in the
United States -> doi.org/10.1029/2022...

Change in mean wet day intensity; Continental U.S.

Change in frequency across intensities; Continental U.S.

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Daniel Horton @danethan.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thanks for sharing Patti. Glacial lake outburst flooding, in Alaska and elsewhere, are indeed on our radar. Lots indicating an upward trend. Also–credit where due–I did not write The Conversation piece, that was Brian Yanites (@geomorphyuggs.bsky.social; also lead author of the Science paper).

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Daniel Horton @danethan.bsky.social · Jun 26

Happy to have provided a climate and atmospheric science perspective to this review in @science.org w/ @geomorphyuggs.bsky.social et al. Climate change-driven alteration of hydrological processes is fundamentally changing how we need to think about hazards and their long tailed consequences.

geomorphyuggs.bsky.social @geomorphyuggs.bsky.social · Jun 26

New in @science.org: Natural hazards aren’t “one and done.” They alter the landscape, changing the likelihood of follow-on events. We argue there’s an urgent opportunity for geomorphologists—working with other disciplines—to better understand and forecast cascading hazards.

Cascading land surface hazards as a nexus in the Earth system

This Review synthesizes progress and outlines a new framework for understanding how land surface hazards interact and propagate as sediment cascades across Earth’s surface, influenced by interactions ...

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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · Jun 25

*500 fewer premature deaths.
*600 fewer kids developing asthma.
That’s the impact clean trucks could have each year in Chicago, according to recent research.
🎙️ We break it down in our latest segment.

Chicago environmental justice group calls for transition to electric trucks » Yale Climate Connections

Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

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John Voelcker @johnvoelcker.bsky.social · Jun 25

After 16 states + D.C. sued the Trump administration for blocking funds dedicated to public #EV charging stations—approved in *2021* under President Biden—a federal judge has ordered the administration to release billions of dollars in funding for the build-out of those chargers ... in those states.

Federal judge orders Trump administration to release EV charger funding in 14 states

A federal judge has partially granted a preliminary injunction that sought to release funds for the build out of electric vehicle chargers in more than a dozen states.

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Daniel Horton @danethan.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Daniel Horton @danethan.bsky.social · Jun 8

In the PacNW, the remedy is to rub spores from sword ferns on the affected area.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · May 4

a whole lot of people have no idea what a luxury it is to simply Walk To The Store

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · May 3

I think this is the first time I've lived walking distance from a grocery store and I'm out of my mind about it. I'll walk there several times a day. Oh did I forget to grab something? No big deal I'll simply Walk To The Store

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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · Apr 30

Citing cuts at the Nat'l Institutes of Health, a top science journal has stopped accepting submissions. The journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, has long published peer-reviewed studies without charging fees & has received NIH support. The journal has been around for >50 years

Citing N.I.H. Cuts, a Top Science Journal Stops Accepting Submissions

With federal support, Environmental Health Perspectives has long published peer-reviewed studies without fees to readers or scientists.

www.nytimes.com

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Christopher Callahan @ccallahan45.bsky.social · Apr 23

NEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature

A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...

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